Deciding how many to reprint

After selling the first print run of Darcy’s Story - 2000 books in 6 weeks - we reprinted the novel.

First, we did a run of another 2000 books in September 1996, then 5000 more in October 1996.

Bear in mind that almost all these sales were in the UK, and through only around 10 outlets. A few sales were via the Internet.

At last, we got to calmer waters, and printed another 2000 books a year later.

That was a satisfactory situation, since the average novel in the UK sells around 3000 copies in its “lifetime”.